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Published on Nov 26, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CATS

Approximately 39% of US households own a cat
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Key message

Significant to religions and societies
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Diffusion

Fertile Crescent

diffusion

  • Asia 
  • Italy
  • Pilgrims to America
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diffusion

  • Domesticated themselves
  • Traces in Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iran
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DIFFUSION

  • Important to society/religion
  • Killed pests
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significance in Islam

  • Not holy but clean
  • Common for pet
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significance in ISLAM

  • Muhammad was kind 
  • Muezza
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significance in islam

  • Granted cat seven lives
  • Gave sermons with cat
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significance in islam

  • Muhammad drank water from cat
  • Ablutions
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significance in islam

  • Treat cats well
  • Mistreating is a severe sin 
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significance in islam

  • Not sold for money/traded goods 
  • Provide with enough water and food
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significance in buddhism

  • Deities associated with cat family
  • Dakini Pukkasi 
  • Dombi Heruka and Donje Drollo 

significance in buddhism

  • Sacred or evil
  • Vain and proud 
  • Independent and self possessed
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significance in buddhism

  • Folklore 
  • Characteristics of the cat
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significance in buddhism

  • Birman cat
  • Souls of departed returned as a cat
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significance in buddhism

  • Man meditated for 12 years
  • Vain and overconfident
  • Reborn as a cat
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significance in buddhism

  • Very spiritual human's soul enters cat
  • Remains there until cat death
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significance in buddhism

  • Buddhist teachers
  • Catnap, feline focus, and purr
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key message

Significant to religions and societies
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